Later on in the podcast voiceover does indeed say "home button on the rightbut it doesn't start out that way and it says "home button on the right" because he is holding the phone with the home button on the left. I do understand why this worked for him since he apparently wasn't locked in portrait mode but I still think it is confusing. However, one thing I did realize is that I had a wrong picture of where your fingers tap. I was picturing it with your fingers alont the long edge of the phone so that dot 3 would be on the far left and dot 6 would be on the far right. Instead, I see that the two sets of dots (1 2 3; 4 5 6) will be at each end of the phone so that apparently 1 and 4 will be at opposite ends of the length of the phone but will be at the highest edge and 4 and 6 will be at opposite ends of the phone but will be at what would be the bottom edge when you hold the phone away from you. I was visualizing a long row of dots across the long edge; apparently it's really two sets of dots on the two ends? If this is the case I appreciate the information but still wish the home button issue had not been made more confusing.
-- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Jan 5, 2013, at 6:40 PM, Cheryl Homiak <[email protected]> wrote: > I am sorry to be contradictory, but he is not correct. He instructed people > to hold their iphones with the home button to the left and that will be > correct only if your phone is not locked in portrait orientation. It is > exactly opposite to the clear directions in the welcome screen and I consider > it to be very confusing. Many of us do indeed lock our screens in portrait > orientation and Michael did not say "If your phone is not locked in portrait > orientation, it doesn't matter whether the home button is on the left or the > right." Instead he specifically said that voiceover would announce it as home > button to the right (which it does not say; it says the opposite I heard it > clearly on the podcast) and he specifically said that we should really have > the home button to the left. What he did may have worked because his phone > was not locked in portrait mode but his instructions, it appears to me, were > confusing. It is too bad this wasn't corrected before this podcast was put > up; if people continue to listen to this after the app comes out I am quite > sure it will multiply the confusion. > > > -- > Cheryl > > May the words of my mouth > and the meditation of my heart > be acceptable to You, Lord, > my rock and my Redeemer. > (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) > > > > On Jan 5, 2013, at 6:16 PM, BrailleTouch <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Cheryl, >> >> Good catch! If you lock your phone in portrait, then BrailleTouch will work >> with the home button on your right, from the perspective of the screen >> facing away from you. It will be locked in this orientation. >> >> If you do not lock your iPhone, then BrailleTouch will work in both >> landscape orientations, depending on which way you hold the phone. So >> Michael Hansen is correct in his podcast. He was just holding it in the >> other landscape orientation. Regardless of how you hold the phone if it is >> not locked in portrait mode, dot 1 is your left index finger, dot 3 is your >> left ring finger, dot 4 is your right index finger, and so forth. >> >> I hope this helps. >> >> Best, >> Caleb >> http://brailletouchapp.com/ >> >> On 1/5/2013 7:11 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >>> It appears to me that he got this exactly backwards. Voiceover says "home >>> button on the left" I heard it clearly. And the welcome screen explained >>> clearly that the home button must actually be on your right but that >>> voiceover says it backwards. But the podcaster immediately turns the >>> instructions around and says we are to hold the phone with the home button >>> on the left and that voiceover says it's on the right. I listened to that >>> part four times to make sure I wasn't confused. I'm not even going to >>> listen to the rest of this because it will only confuse me! Maybe he's >>> right and i'm the one who is confused but I don't think so. If I am right, >>> no wonder he thought it would be confusing to people to use this app at >>> first. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
